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 Programming › Re: Problem with tracking word frequency[Java] by Fayimora(m): 12:58am On Dec 29, 2012 |
As already stated, please post your problems without directing it at anyone. You just end up putting folks off. I've changed the topic  |
| Programming › Re: Missing Nairaland Functions by Fayimora(m): 12:41am On Dec 28, 2012 |
I was expecting a list with obvious things like "preview button", "better WYSIWYG editor" e.t.c.... |
| Programming › Re: Bad Languages Require Ides by Fayimora(m): 12:39am On Dec 28, 2012 |
a programmg language should b relatively easy to learn, mayb not so easy to master. I disagree. A lot of people say "Language X is easy to learn" forgetting that it depends on your background. It depends on what you already know and what you want to do. It also depends on your style of programming(if you already do). No offense but your post is simply Gobbledygook. Every developer I know, myself inclusive, learnt Java with a text editor and the terminal. On a serious note, the only thing I can't do properly with my text editor is debugging and I'm not concerned because I hardly(almost never) use those debugging tools anyways. FYI, I use vim and I use it for 'EVERYTHING text'. |
| Programming › Re: Why Do Young Startup Founders Drop Out Of School by Fayimora(m): 10:37pm On Jul 31, 2012 |
lordZOUGA: there is no leisure in programming... You think frustration is fun?Can't believe someone can actually make such a statement. Until you stop perceiving programming as something that should't make you think or something that should make you rich, you will NEVER, and I repeat NEVER see the joy in programming. To make it worse, you will NEVER be worth the name "programmer". Just like @netghost, I program for fun! When you embrace it properly, you will get more than you asked for. Programming is for those who know what programming actually is! @worldbest, people that learn at that level and suddenly have startup(s) are called ENTREPRENEURS not PROGRAMMERS. They never wanted to program, they only found a very lucrative way to try out their actual skills! 1 Like |
| Programming › Re: Why Do Young Startup Founders Drop Out Of School by Fayimora(m): 8:46pm On Jul 24, 2012 |
It's quite simple. You CANNOT run a company while in school. You have to choose one! 2 Likes |
| Programming › Re: Who Can Help With Writing An Encryption Algorithm? How Soon Can One Learn How To by Fayimora(m): 11:34pm On Jul 19, 2012 |
@ekt has mentioned what I am about to say but I don't think you took it into consideration. Seriously, I'll give you a "Nairaland tip". When people like @ekt suggest you check something out, CHECK IT OUT! Doesn't matter if it turns out to be "useless". I know he knows his stuff! Ok back on point; Hash Function != Encryption Function If you want to create some sort of irreversible mapping between an arbitrary length of data, then what you need is a hash function. Why? Do your research! If you want to create a reversible 1-1 mapping between data of arbitrary length then what you want is an encryption function. Notice the 1-1 ?!?! Now encrypting is more or less translating. If I take a message and re-write it in Spanish, I have basically encrypted that message from you because I know you can't speak Spanish!(#assumption) I extracted a phrase from one of your posts, "DATA TRANSMISSION". Why would you want to hash this? Really? When the data gets to its location, what happens? How do you translate it? Encryption = Translation. Get your data, translate it into a language that no-one understands except he/she has a "key". Your receiver accepts the message and because he/she is in possession of a key, they can "unlock" the message. You now feeling the vibe? lol Anyways, in summary, you need an encryption algorithm. If you have the time, it's quite fun trying to write one. Don't try it if you haven't got a good math background though, seriously it's a killer! If you don't have time then I believe @ekt provided you with the best thing, of which I spiced up a bit!  @Webdezzi LOADS of code convention and java development errors in that snippet of code  When da F&%k is the preview button coming back? 1 Like |
| Programming › Re: Who Can Help With Writing An Encryption Algorithm? How Soon Can One Learn How To by Fayimora(m): 8:47am On Jul 15, 2012 |
An addition to the post directly above this: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Security/AES/AES_v1.html |
| Programming › Re: Are You A Real Programmer? Can You Code With Notepad? by Fayimora(m): 8:31pm On Jul 06, 2012 |
Sorry before I put forth my opinionated views, I just want to make a quick inquiry. Are you guys actually talking about Notepad, that useless application on windows or a Text Editor! |
| Programming › Re: When Did Y'all Start Coding by Fayimora(m): 8:19pm On Jul 06, 2012 |
Define coding! Writing HTML/CSS is coding lol |
| Programming › Re: Nigeria Represented In Google Code Jam, Russians Dominate by Fayimora(m): 12:21am On Jun 14, 2012 |
Hahaha ok I would behave.. LMAOOOOOO! Seriously? At least am sure @sayo_marvel did not participate.. This is funny tho |
| Programming › Re: High Scalability Help!!!!!! by Fayimora(m): 5:27am On Jun 10, 2012 |
Create a new thread for that in the child forum(programmers/software market). You would get who you need there. Your application is not slow until it is provably slow! |
| Programming › Re: Why I Love The Cloud by Fayimora(m): 5:16am On Jun 10, 2012 |
Heroku is IMHO the best out there. However, there was an argument on IRC #rubyonrails about using heroku. We came to an agreement that there is never a reason to use something like heroku except your site is earning more than enough to pay for the services. Note that when I say 'use heroku', I mean for a serious app in production. Also, if you aren't interested in setting up VPSs and servers(#sadmuch), then heroku is yours. At the end of the day, setting up your production server really gives you an edge. You get to learn a lot and for as long as possible, you save a lot of money. Apart from the argument above, it is Cloud Computing all the way. Life is too short to be dealing with petty details . @ekt did you know that Heroku was built on EC2?? When I read about this, my jaw dropped. You get this **ahh, that's why it is very expensive** feeling. Have you tried using EC2 directly? EDIT: Another good thing about Heroku is Deployment. Holy sh$t deployment is as simple as `heroku create --stack cedar && git push heroku master`. wooot! |
| Programming › Re: Need Help/collaborators On Occupy9ja.com by Fayimora(m): 8:35pm On Jun 02, 2012 |
It is a yes! Would look at the project in a bit... |
| Programming › Re: How Do I Improve My Programming Skills? by Fayimora(m): 10:34am On Jun 02, 2012 |
okeyxyz: 3 months only & u r already thinking of solving the world's problems? Ma guy abeg cool down, whoever's giving you advice definitely knows nothing about programming. Learning to program is a very slow process & there's no short cut about it. Don't stress urself, u r just starting, you still have many more months & years of hard labour ahead to build your skills[size=13pt]+100[/size] okeyxyz: & in my opinion, just one language is not gonna cut it. U need to learn more languages so you can see the different perspectives of programming b4 u can gain enough confidence to "think in codes" & tackle irregular problems.Errr stick to one for now else you are bound to loose focus. You would know when you need to learn a new language. |
| Programming › Re: E-voting System Is Ready by Fayimora(m): 5:44pm On May 30, 2012 |
Without some iritating configuration, you would not be able to receive emails on localhost/. Upload it to a server and try it out |
| Programming › Re: Need Help/collaborators On Occupy9ja.com by Fayimora(m): 4:41pm On May 30, 2012 |
Hmm your choice! |
| Programming › Re: Owl Dl Reasoner by Fayimora(m): 4:39pm On May 30, 2012 |
You might want to explain what that is for those of us who don't know what you are talking about |
| Programming › Re: Need Help/collaborators On Occupy9ja.com by Fayimora(m): 7:59pm On May 26, 2012 |
Am done with exams.. Wassup here? |
| Programming › Re: Is Python Really Worth The Buzz And Hype It's Getting ? by Fayimora(m): 7:58pm On May 26, 2012 |
Nope. You basically can't have something like Rspec in python except you create some nasty hacks that would allow you have nested functions(basically except you deal with the devil lool). |
| Programming › Re: Is Python Really Worth The Buzz And Hype It's Getting ? by Fayimora(m): 11:32pm On May 25, 2012 |
As a matter of fact, Python canot have blocks without very very nasty patches. Because of this, Python cannot posses tools like RSpec! Am sure we both know how awesome blocks are. http://pastie.org/3968568 @goon, write me a tool like Rspec and I would pay you £1000. Just ONE condition, you would open source it! |
| Programming › Re: First thing on your mind when asked to develop a website ? by Fayimora(m): 7:38pm On May 10, 2012 |
The looks. It has to be completely different from what I have done before. |
| Programming › Re: Algorithm Design & Analysis: Because It's What Some Do by Fayimora(m): 4:05am On May 09, 2012 |
I smell @Beaf lol. You're rather lucky then,[b]I"m guessing you school might be on the smaller side and Prof. are usually acting as outside consultants vs. really implementing the stuff.Do you know what uni I go to? lol anyways, they don't work for these companies. Apart from those that co-founded, they are "company fellows" and not consultants. I could have given you a link to a few of our discussions but you would not have access. They say smalltalk rocks but they never advice anyone to use it in production. |
| Programming › Re: Algorithm Design & Analysis: Because It's What Some Do by Fayimora(m): 3:06pm On May 08, 2012 |
Am not sure you thought this through. You described almost every staff in my department. They mostly have companies they either founded or co-founded or manage/associated with, no jokes. They all teach lol. So what's your point? Do you expect all or even half of the dissertations to solve real life problems? How many companies solve these problems? A few. I know a couple of dissertations/projects that do and one that is very popular now is Representational State Transfer. Fielding defined this in his dissertation. Oh how did google begin? @ekt yeah! |
| Programming › Re: Algorithm Design & Analysis: Because It's What Some Do by Fayimora(m): 3:34am On May 08, 2012 |
delomos: In my experience, the Algo classes thought in Uni, are too theoretical for real world application (same goes to most Uni approach to Design Patterns and/or OO).Now that SERIOUSLY depends on the university! |
| Programming › Re: Algorithm Design & Analysis: Because It's What Some Do by Fayimora(m): 3:28am On May 08, 2012 |
@ekt I understand what you are trying to say but I am talking from experience not assumption or just a wild guess(not saying that is what you are doing). I have been teaching 5 different modules for over a year now and this is ALWAYS the case. I can't go into further details cause I signed an NDA. You cannot analyze something PROPERLY when you dont know how it works! This is just a general case btw. Someone that is super keen would!(by going back a bit to fil up gaps )Yes I know the big picture is Dynamic Programming but what do you know about dynamic programming that makes you think you can just analyze it? You MUST(no?) have a good understanding of what you are about to analyze. There is a reason why such courses require you to have good programming background! |
| Programming › Re: Is Python Really Worth The Buzz And Hype It's Getting ? by Fayimora(m): 10:12pm On May 04, 2012 |
webdezzi: haha, thread already escalated!Errr that's not entirely true. Depends on the access modifier used. Basically, you can but you would have to take A LOT into consideration. Just for confirmation, see the following: this code runs fine! this code also compile with no problems Same goes for this code The problem only arises in this code That's the simplest example I could think of. There are other instances too. |
| Programming › Re: Is Python Really Worth The Buzz And Hype It's Getting ? by Fayimora(m): 9:53pm On May 02, 2012 |
@ekt am not sure I agree with you. What library were you trying to use that you couldn't get on rubygems?? If you don't want to mention then cool. Am not saying you are wrong am just curious. I know A LOT of python-ruby developers(very proficient in both) and they always get their stuff done in either language on the same level. I always get what I want with ruby and that's why I dont waste time with python |
| Programming › Re: Algorithm Design & Analysis: Because It's What Some Do by Fayimora(m): 2:12am On Apr 30, 2012 |
Cool. If you are total n00b then you can start with some good language-centric ones. For instance Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick or Data Structures and Algorithms by Goodrich and Tamasia. The former uses Java while the latter comes in 2 versions, one in Java and one in C++. Find one that suits your purpose. if you not a n00b to programming(advanced beginner) and you are a math veteran like me, then I love Introduction to Algorithms AKA CLRS. Sorry I couldn't place the links to the books. I am writin from my iPad which is a bit inconvenient. Would modify the post when I get on a computer. |
| Programming › Re: Algorithm Design & Analysis: Because It's What Some Do by Fayimora(m): 1:46am On Apr 30, 2012 |
I do understand that you don't need to be good at algorithms to take that course, however, they(at least 50% of what you would see) wouldn't really make sense. You would also need basic-intermediate level maths. I helped a friend that took the course and I felt for her. I did my math and I realised that it is always better to use to book to get started on algorithms, that's if you ain't in a physical class of course. It might not work for everyone but I believe it works for at least 8 out of 10 people. |
| Programming › Re: Algorithm Design & Analysis: Because It's What Some Do by Fayimora(m): 3:30pm On Apr 29, 2012 |
Just as a side note directed towards beginners, there is no point studying the analysis of algorithms if you dont understand the algorithms themselves. |
